On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 05:04:26PM -0500, Bryan Larsen wrote: > >I am now assuming the problem is with the CD burner > >and that it needs replacing. > > A 50% failure rate is not uncommon with blank media that you buy in the > store. I don't mean this to sound personal, but it's going to, so here it comes: there's just no way. None. You're either kidding or doing it wrong or both. A 50% failure rate is _completely_ unacceptable; I might have a bad burn maybe one time in twenty or less, DVDs or CDs, on media that's bought on the basis of whatever was cheap at the time. Can I ask the original poster: What, precisely, are you doing to burn those CDs? K3B? Something command-lineish? -- "There's always a man faster on the draw than you are, and the more you use a gun, the sooner you're gonna run into that man." - Gunfight at the O.K. Corral